Meaningful Inconsistencies

Bicultural Nationhood, the Free Market, and Schooling in Aotearoa/New Zealand
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-609-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

School differentiates students-and provides differential access to various human and material resources-along a range of axes: from elected subjects and academic "achievement" to ethnicity, age, gender, or the language they speak. These categorizations, affected throughout the world by neoliberal reforms that prioritize market forces in transforming educational institutions, are especially stark in societies that recognize their bi- or multicultural makeup through bilingual education. A small town in Aotearoa/New Zealand, with its contemporary shift toward official biculturalism and extensive free-marketization of schooling, is a prime example. Set in the microcosm of a secondary school with a bilingual program, this important volume closely examines not only the implications of categorizing individuals in ethnic terms in their everyday life but also the shapes and meaning of education within the discourse of academic achievement. It is an essential resource for those interested in bilingual education and its effects on the formations of subjectivities, ethnic relations, and nationhood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doerr, Neriko Musha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of tables

List of maps

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Shifting terrains: Aotearoa/New Zealand's changing nationhood

Chapter 3. Categorizing: Changing official regimes of difference in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Chapter 4. Inhabiting Waikaraka High School

Chapter 5. Sorting: Tracking system and production of meanings

Chapter 6. Calling it separatist: On conflating two regimes

Chapter 7. Imagining "failure": The illusion of Maori under-achievement

Chapter 8. Laughing: Language politics in the classroom

Chapter 9. Laughing globally: Creation of alliances and globally homologous

Chapter 10. Dancing: Cultural performance and nationhood

Chapter 11. Conclusion and departure

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Doerr, Neriko Musha
Neriko Musha Doerr earned a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University. Her publications have appeared in a number of journals. She currently teaches cultural anthropology at Brookdale Community College, New Jersey.